The Rule of Six will be scrapped on July 19 along with other Covid lockdown restrictions, reports say.
Limits on indoor mixing will reportedly be dumped so people in England can enjoy Freedom Day in mixed groups.
Social distancing, face masks and work-from-home guidance are also expected to be ditched.
Insiders say Boris Johnson is adamant he will relax the restrictions next month, which will put rocket boosters under the ravaged hospitality industry.
It comes after internal government assessments warned keeping even limited rules for longer would spell disaster for hundreds of thousands of jobs.
But it is understood there is almost no chance the date will be brought forward to July 5 despite immense pressure from Tory MPs.
Boris Johnson (pictured running this morning) is getting ready to give the green light for the sweeping unlocking on July 19 after internal government assessments warned that keeping even limited restrictions for longer would spell disaster for the hospitality industry and hundreds of thousands of jobs
England could be free of all Covid restrictions by July 19, as the country moving towards herd immunity - despite rising infection numbers
A source told the Sun the Prime Minister is dead-set on Freedom Day being July 19, with the Rule of Six being shelved.
Social distancing, face masks and work-from-home guidance are all expected to be ditched as England makes a dramatic push back towards normality.
But Mr Johnson is expected to announce on Monday the lockdown easing will not be brought forward to July 5.
The plan could put England on a different course from Scotland, after Nicola Sturgeon yesterday delayed the latest phase of its loosening for three weeks.
Prof Neil Ferguson - known as Professor Lockdown - gave an optimistic view of the emerging data this morning.
He said while cases were rising hospitalisations and deaths were not seeing significant increases.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it appears two doses of vaccine are giving a 'high level' of protection against severe disease.
Mr Johnson sensationally delayed Freedom Day from June 21 amid concerns about cases of the Indian - or Delta - variant in the UK.
The PM insisted the extra four weeks was needed to buy time to get more people double-jabbed before the final set of restrictions are lifted.
A senior Government source told the Times ministers want to 'get as close to normal as possible' on July 19, with an emphasis on 'personal responsibility'.
The UK recorded another 16,135 coronavirus cases today – the most since the start of February.
Other promising data yesterday revealed the country has moved one step closer to herd immunity, with nearly nine in 10 adults now having antibodies against Covid.
The major Office for National Statistics (ONS) blood testing survey highlighted the success of the UK's mammoth vaccination campaign, which is now open to every adult in all four home nations. Almost 60 per cent of over-18s (31.5million) are now fully jabbed.
While daily infections have risen by 51.5 per cent in a week, hospitalisations – which lag behind cases by several weeks because of how long it takes for infected patients to fall severely ill – have increased by a fifth. There are still just 1,380 Covid inpatients across the UK.
Deaths have nearly tripled in the last week, with 27 victims recorded today compared to 10 last Thursday.
But the average number of daily fatalities is currently 13 and figures can fluctuate day-to-day because of recording lags.
Prof Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the current data was looking encouraging.
'The overall picture is encouraging of all the surveillance data streams at the current time,' he said.
'We are seeing as we expected rises in case numbers across the country, but they have slowed slightly compared with a couple of weeks ago, and we're seeing rises in hospitalisations and indeed in deaths but again they're at a much lower level compared with cases than they were previously, demonstrating the high effectiveness of vaccines at protecting people particularly against severe illness.'
Prof Ferguson said data was coming through all the time but 'it is clear' that having two doses of vaccine offers a high level of protection and even those who do get infected are 'almost certainly probably 50 per cent less infectious'.
The expert said the virus was currently concentrated in unvaccinated groups, including children,
